Quotes about writ
writing men agency
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. David Ogilvy
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Dario Argento
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to. Condoleezza Rice
writer
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. John Irving
writing stuff bigs
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker
writing today garbage
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. Cleveland Amory
writing make-sense
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me. Daphne Gottlieb
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. Dan Simmons
writing rocks built
Writing is the rock on which everything is built. Dan Rather
writing enough young
I can't seem to write young enough anymore. Cynthia Weil
writing play lunch
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play. Danielle Steel
writing people trying
I always try to write about believable people.
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
writing people idiot
I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online. Daniel Negreanu
writing bored doe
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. Cormac McCarthy
writing age barcelona
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. Colm Toibin
writing firsts fountain
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
writing people inspire
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing. Common
writing waste scripts
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style Clifford Geertz
writing ideas sometimes
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Colin Hay
writing thinking always-trying
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
writing thinking years
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. It sort of scared me. That's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come. ... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in. Paul Simon
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. Robert Morgan
writing ends
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible. Kurt Vonnegut
writing thinking typewriters
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.